Best Christmas Toy

[TURBO]

Anybody else remember "Big Jim"? He of the posable body, big biceps, and karate chop button in the middle of his back. A poor man's, non-military GJ Joe. Jim, his pals and their accessories constituted the bulk of my Christmas presents in 1972 and 1973. For some reason, I recall Big Jim as casting a much more rugged masculine presence than he appears in this photo:

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s220/rbrandtjen/boy51.jpg

Sometimes, it's best not to examine too closely one's childhood memories.

yes, I mentioned him and his rescue rig previously in this thread.

 

I had Big Jim, Big Josh (lumberjsck looking guy with beard painted on, Big Jack (black guy), and Big Jeff (surfer looking dude with longer blonde hair.)

 

I had their rescue rig and their cool off road black camper. My friends and I used to play with them a lot, take them down to the crick for whatever adventure we could think of that day.

 

Good times...

[Paul77]

Voltron.

 

I remember my Mom explaining to me why I wasn't going to get Voltron one year because it cost over $100. I understood, even at 7 or 8 years old that $100 was a lot of money, especially in 1986 dollors. So I resigned myself to the fact that I would not get it. It was a major disappointment for the young 20fry - but I carried on.

 

Flash forward about 20 years and I'm cleaning out my Moms basement when I come across an old Toys R Us advert from 1985 - voltron featured on the front page. The price? $100? $80? $50...How about $29.99! This ranks right up there with the time my parents bought me some HeMan toys for Christmas and "misplaced" them before they had a chance to wrap them. They said "they are in the house somewhere". For 10 years I searched for those toys. NEVER FOUND THEM.

 

Thanks thread starter. Now I'll all bitter and upset.

As the Therapist from Office Space said: "Wow, that's messed up!"

I should have expected that Christmas would cut both ways. It has a way of hitting the highest highs and the lowest lows... but let's stick to the highs. These are some great memories.... well, except 20fry's. Thanks for sharing.

 

Ah, one creepy side-effect... I wanna play some electric football, super toe, etc

To be fair, I got Voltron the following year ( I got everything the year after everyone else).

 

[colbyjack]

The Millennium Falcon was clearly the line in the sand that seperated the parents who truly loved their children from those who were simply trying to fulfill obligations to their state/church. My parents Land Speeder-loved me, but certainly not Millennium Falcon-loved me.

 

That's good stuff, thanks for the laugh. The thing is when you got the Falcon you knew how cool it was because even at that young age you understood how lucky you were to have it, since not everyone else did.

 

We had the Death Star too, so we were truly loved (and spoiled).

 

Although the comment did remind me that there was always that one only child on the block that had every single Star Wars toy imaginable, among other toys. I remember this one kid that not only had all of the small figures and playsets, as well as doubles and triples of a lot of things, but he also had the big 12" Star Wars figures. Remember Han Solo with the gold award around his neck of the Boba Fett with the eye hole you could look through (Steve Austin style)?

 

Speaking of spoiled, the year my brother got this we all almost crapped our pants:

 

http://www.nhsnowmobilemuseum.com/burdicksledshed/images/1972ArcticCatKittyCat1.JPG

 

Flash forward about 20 years and I'm cleaning out my Moms basement when I come across an old Toys R Us advert from 1985 - voltron featured on the front page. The price? $100? $80? $50...How about $29.99! This ranks right up there with the time my parents bought me some HeMan toys for Christmas and "misplaced" them before they had a chance to wrap them. They said "they are in the house somewhere". For 10 years I searched for those toys. NEVER FOUND THEM.

 

Wow, your parents are some kind of mean. That's really funny.

[danzig6767]

http://www.1000bit.net/lista/dati/mattel/intellivision.jpg

 

 

awesome!

my cousin got that one year and we spent the entire christmas day playing the baseball game... that was fun!

 

I was the master at that baseball game. My cousin and a friend each had the system when i was a little kid and we'd play baseball for hours, nobody could beat me. Looking back at that, it's funny how cool i thought i was because nobody could beat me at a video game.

 

[Fatter than Joey]

I was the master at that baseball game.

 

That MLB game was way ahead of anything else on the market at the time. I played it a lot as well. Intellevision really amped up a lot of the Atari standards, like Space Armada, Lock-n-chase.

 

The game I was particularly good at was Tron's deadly discs.

[Iron Chef Napalm]

The best part of intellivision baseball was that you could occasionally bunt homers and be tossed out at first by the left fielder.

 

 

RoCo,

 

Crossbows and catapults was great fun. Did you see that they came out with a new version this year?

[JET15]